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Topic: largest abandoned multiplex?
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Mark Richey
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From: Fort Worth, TX
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted September 22, 2003 11:42 PM
In addition to the long-closed West End 10 (an admirable, if misguided, attempt to bring a movie theater back to Downtown Dallas), the area saw the closing of the 14 (or 16--I can't remember) screen UA MacArthur Marketplace back in July. There were rumors that the property was going to be sold to another theater chain, but as far as I know, it's sitting over there in north Irving empty.
Like the abandoned Regal in Columbus, it was built during the theater-building boom of the late 1990s (I believe it opened in 1999). Its main problem was location. It's sitting in the middle of a not-very-developed area, beside an interstate whose primary purpose is to get people to and from DFW Airport (to be fair, I suspect that UA thought the area would be much more built-up by now). It was also hard to get in and out of, and there are several other multiplexes within a ten-minute drive. All in all, it's not too surprising the theater shuttered.
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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted October 13, 2003 02:48 PM
There are several larger theatres near me that have gone away in the last few years. Here is a complete list of theatres in the following cities that have closed that had 4 screens or more. The largest had 16 screens:
Huntsville, AL:
University 6 (Consolidated, then Carmike) Regal 8 (Cobb, then Regal)
Decatur, AL:
Gateway 4 (Regal in its final days)
Nashville, TN:
Cinema North 6 (Consolidated, then Carmike) Cinema South 4 (Consolidated, then Carmike) Fountain Square 14 (AMC, then Carmike) Carmike 6 at Harding Mall Hermitage 4 (Martin, then Carmike) Carmike Cool Springs Galleria 10 Lion's Head 5 (Consolidated, then Carmike) Carmike Williamson Square 8 Regal Nippers Corner 10 Courtyard 8 (Litchfield, then Regal) O'Neal Old Hickory Cinema 16 O'Neal Watson Glen Cinema 10
Gadsden, AL:
Gadsden Cinemas (4-plex) (independent)
Anniston, AL:
Carmike 6
Birmingham, AL:
Carmike Colonnade 10 Bama 6 (Consolidated, then Carmike) Cobb Midfield 6 Cobb Center Point 6 Cobb Hoover Square 6 Cobb Green Springs 6 Cobb Cinema City 8
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